I have two HDDs. Hda has Win98SE and hdb has Puppy. The modem works fine in Windows and is on COM 2. I tried the Modem Wizard and went through all the selections and it failed to find the modem. Then saved the first two settings and tried PAP and CHAP and still it wouldn't connect. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.

Your modem is a HSF winmodem (software modem) that requires a driver the cost 20.00 dollars U.S. to work at 56K. A free driver is available but is limited to a max speed of 14.4K which is useless.

Your only solution to use this modem with Puppy is to use a version with a 2.4*** kernel like Puppy 1.09CE. If you want to use any 2*** version of Puppy you will need to pay www.linuxant.com 20 bucks. There is a hack which no longer works with Puppy so dont waist your time there.

There is a dot.pop by Jcoder for the HCF/HSF modem driver for the 1*** Puppys like 1.09CE.

IMO, use the external hardware modem. Search to forum for hardware modems that work with Puppy. As long as it IS NOT a USB modem it should work. USB modems also rely on software and are not true hardware modems.

A lot of USB modems work with linux. A lot of PCI modems work. You just got the odd ball. I have the same odd ball in my laptop with 1.09CE.

I'm using a home PC now with the standard PCI ltmodem that came with it. They cost less than 10 bucks US. However I can't think of a single small linux distro smaller than 100mb except Puppy that will detect it. Ubuntu at 698mb wouldn't even detect it. Mepis (sp) does. This is a main reason I love Puppy, winmodem support is great.

I would search this forum for the pages that talk about what modems work with Puppy first. You are overlooking many pages already posted that can help your problem. Dont buy a modem that only has Windows drivers. Search Google for PCI modems with linux support if you have to but everything you need has already been posted here.

You should be aware that there are a number of variations in model types for Conexant Softk 56k PCI modems - so you should also include what "type & model number (& CLASS)" info to this forum as well so we can then give you the needed help ..

You could also try this link - http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=14663

I gave up on the winmodem and bought an external U.S. Robotics modem that was on the "works" list. Now I'm having problems getting that to work just in Windows. Linux seems to have a lot of problems with modems and getting connected. Strange.

If you bought the same one I did. Then you found out they did not supply the serial port cable in the box. ha ha. One on me.

Hate to ask about what you surely already know. You did buy the external modem that goes on the serial port. Not the one that goes on the USB port?

I am perplexed about Windows having a problem with an external serial port modem. For me. I plug it into the computer. One must use a screw driver to fully screw in the cable to the serial port. Else it will not seat well enough to work. Something about the way the cable end is designed. I turn on the modem. I reboot the computer. Windows finds the Modem. Then installs the drivers for the modem.

What I have found out about the process. The modem came with a CD. Mostly this seems like Spyware which they want to add to an already overburdened Windows. The actual .inf that comes with this thing might be better than what Windows installs. I dunno. If one goes to the US Robotics site one can get some programs to flash the Modem with some upgrades. Like one for v.92 Then I find out my ISP never would use this protocol anyway. So. Probably not doing any of that is necessary. Windows will find and install a usable - working driver.

In Windows. Must set the options to use the External Serial Modem in different places to use it. I must go into Control Panel/Modems and choose the external serial modem to use, in place of the usual Modem. Then I must go into my Windows dialer, for my ISP, and choose the external serial modem there as well. Sometimes this information can get lost on reboot. So I have to reset the pointers to the modem I want to use, again.

In Puppy Linux. My Serial Modem is ttyS0. Which I can choose and save even if the Modem Wizard does not find it.

Now the part that gives me confusion. I have a workaround that I use. My workaround is surely not the right way to do this. However.

I change the serial port speed down. In doing this I prefer to use the GnomePPP dialup modem program. These must be downloaded and installed. Since your Puppy is offline. This is a manual operation.

ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-2/

You will need these two packages..

gnome_ppp-0.3.23.pet

wvdial-1.53.pet

One wvdial comes installed. What you will need is the other one. I can not easily look to see which version comes preinstalled right now while I am online.

To repeat the obviousl. One puts them someplace on your computer and while running Puppy you click on gnome_ppp-0.3.23.pet.

When it installs it will ask for the wvdial it wants as a dependency. You point over to where you already have it saved. It will install that. When you reboot it will install the GnomePPP modem dialup into the start menu. Menu/Network/GnomePPP modem dialup.

What I like about this program is several things. I do not have to run the Modem Wizard. This program will find the Modem on its own. I do not have to choose the protocol. PAP, CHAP, CHAT. This program has a feature to easily set the serial port speed. In the button setup I see a bunch of speeds. Usually this thing tries to start at 115200.

From experience I know that if I let it try to connect at this speed of 115200. It might seem to connect. The connection dies the first time I ask it do anything. (go to a web address), I use 57600. As the guru told me. I probably should instead use a different init string and leave the port speed alone. I do not know. I am not completely sure what the init string should be. (and the US Robotics web site is not helpful in getting me this information. They do offer an .inf for Windows. Which if I knew how to interpret might help.) In any case. Adding init strings with the dialers now in Puppy is not possible. That is. Specifically. I can not change the first init string. I can change the second init string in the dialers.

To change the port speed in Gkdial. From a previous post.

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To speak on with this Modem dialer problem. I just found this note from the technical support from a local ISP. (on connecting with dial up Modems.)

(Warning: Do not force a connect rate that is higher than your normal connect rate. When your modem makes an initial connection, it will determine that the lines cannot handle that speed, and immediately hang up.)

I manually edit the speed down to 56800 and I can log in. However the speed is way too slow. I reset the value to 38400 and the speed to download a web page is nearly OK. (house is the name I choose for my connection.)

I took a peek at Wvdial and it has the same problem with setting the speed too high. However I have not tested it.

I see should not try to manually edit the file for Wvdial. And that is right. It hangs the computer. ha ha ha ha.

When editing the speed. Be sure to use one of the standard port speeds.

115200
57600
38400
28800
14400
7200

These numbers from the GnomePPP dialer options. If you use a randomly chosen number. Seems if you get on. The speed of connection is dead slow.

There can be some strange issues with telephone lines. A long telephone line. Like from the wall plug in the next room to the Modem
can make the connection run slow. I have an electric heater which seems to effect my modem, and keep me from logging on before the power loss effects any other part of the computer. Obviously telephone wires can be damaged in some way. Which is why US Robotics includes a telephone line and tells the user to use their wire from the wall to the modem. I used to have a friend whose modem had issues with a caller ID box. He had to unplug the caller ID box to get his modem to work. Obviously modems have problems with the click click or whatever from a message service. At least once in our lives. Everyone must plug the telephone line into the wrong hole in the modem. The markings are on the bottom of the modem to show where the wires go.

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